Hi guys,
First, let me tell you that after the Winter Sale I'm going to increase the game's price from 10 USD as I promised in the Early Access interview. If you'd like to get the game for a lower price, probably this sale will be your last chance for a long time.
But let's go to the new version!
0.9.2.01:
- In the first two months of the game on Steam it got criticism about not giving enough information about the current market situation. Players didn't find the way to know: how good are their computers, why can an opponent sell less or more. Although I explained in the Crash Course of the game my vision about how you should find out these from the already given data, I planned to give you more feedback. As I told you earlier I don't want to show you price data and exact computer property values of your opponents (such as performance = 635). I find it a bad design, because even in real life you should not price your product by your competition (it would result in an immediate correction from the opponents), and also some values are not possible to measure (you can't give strict values to prestige or Ease-Of-Use - and I have more reasons). Considering these I've put a new screen into the game. A fictional employee of yours tells you what people think about your product (after saving the computer design). The results of this survey are not representative. How could they be? As I mentioned some values are absolutely unmeasurable - and also marketing plays a huge aspect, and here you don't get a country based result, but a global one. Still, I think this will help players out to answer questions such as "What do people think who has the fastest computers?" or "Do people find my computer faster than the other players' computers on the market?" or "Should I give a moderate price for my computer?" I really hope that you will find it useful, although I still believe that you can play even without this new tool - it is definitely easier this way now. I'd like to mention that it is not the final version of the feedback system, it is much more a prototype. I will add other features to the game that will add more depth and will affect the calculation of these values - and alter the review system's design itself. I just wanted to give you this in the hope that you will enjoy the game more by using it. Possibly this system will be integrated into the new employee feature.
- Some of you told that the animation between the departments is annoying, so from now on you can turn it off in the settings.
- We had an issue with inventing new computer designs. Namely when you invented a new design that is an alternative to another one (mostly HC vs. PC) the shift of the demand was immediate. From now on, it will slowly move towards the new design as time passes.
- On the marketing screen in given resolutions some text was unreadable - fixed.
- Some typos and errors on labels are fixed. Please keep them coming in the discussions!
The next big feature that I'd like to add to the game and I'm working on is the employee system. You will be able to hire people in a similar way as in game dev tycoon or startup company but from a different angle.
I'm still very interested in your ideas about the topic! Please join the Steam discussions and let me know what would you like to manage with your managers in your corporation. What tasks would you like to see in the game?
I'm very thankful for the community in helping my work and generally playing Computer Tycoon. As some of you already read, this is my dream game - I'm working on it alone, and I love every moment of it. Every one of you, who are here to support me is awesome! Thank you!
Please write a positive review if you like the game, and have a nice holiday! :)
Your friend,
Andris